Since it is Black History Month, here at MovieFanFare we thought we’d look at a classic film that examines racism, sexual abuse, and the extraordinary power of the human spirit. The Color Purple (1985) has the dubious distinction of being…
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Spring may feel as though it’s still years away, but we’re just about a month from the release of six titles on Blu-ray and 4K special editions from the Criterion Collection. Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed neo-western crime drama, a timeless…
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It came in the final 15 minutes of the film, and it didn’t include a single line of dialogue. Regardless, Robert Duvall’s appearance as the mysterious Arthur “Boo” Radley in 1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird ranks as one of the…
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He’s the only four-time Best Director Academy Award winner. Curiously, though, legendary filmmaker John Ford–whose birthday was earlier this month–never won for the movie genre he’s most associated with: westerns. His quartet of Oscars came for The Informer (1935),…
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It may not seem odd in an era of Dark Shadows reruns, Anne Rice novels, and the Twilight films, but one has to wonder what moviegoers thought on Valentine’s Day, 1931. Opening in theatres nationwide was a new Universal picture…
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They were two very different actors who found critical and commercial success before they were old enough to legally drink. One used his deadpan demeanor and hangdog expression to specialize in oddball roles with some of film’s top independent directors….
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Some cynics out there might call this the perfect weekend: a Friday the 13th followed by Valentine’s Day. Here at MovieFanFare, we’ll wear our heart on our sleeve (yuck!) for this calendrical conjunction of misfortune and amour while we ask…
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In Splendor in the Grass (1961), young love is thwarted by societal standards and a meddling father, and the moral of the story might be that sexual repression is not good for the soul. Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty (in…
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It was the final year before sound revolutionized Hollywood, and 1926 offered a number of films that continue to entertain and thrill audiences a century later. From Buster Keaton’s Civil War masterpiece and the final screen role for Rudolph Valentino…
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Four high school babes are trigger-happy criminals by night in the remarkedly awful 1956 crime drama The Violent Years. Boasting a screenplay by an uncredited Ed Wood, the film has a prologue of the girls–ringleader Paula, Georgia, Phyliss, and Geraldine–scowling…
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